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Comment Ya, but (Score 1) 39

The business, which claims on its site it will help students land their "dream job" in tech at companies like Amazon, Cisco, and Google, ...

Con or not, some of this is on the students. I mean, those companies aren't really known for hiring people with only a few months of coding training and a half-year Web/VoTech degree. That said, taking advantage of their gullibility and/or desperation isn't cool.

Comment Re:Brought to you by... (Score 1) 124

Trump, Pump, and Dump

Noting that Trump didn't actually buy his stock so no matter how low it goes he won't lose any money. Other shareholders, on the other hand ...

Small-time investors in Trump’s Truth Social reckon with stock collapse.

Several people have a majority of their money invested in this stock and one guy has invested his whole "nest egg" -- $25,000 -- and wants to buy more. He believes the stock could "go to $1,000 a share, easy." I wish him luck.

Comment Re:Ctrl-Z (Score 1) 202

I am familiar with UNIX shell job control, and I was not stating that undo came first... only that your insinuation it was some ("modern") Windows-centric thing was in error.

Got it, thanks! I've never been an Apple/Mac/iOS, etc... user -- though I did use, and develop on, a Xerox 1108 Dandelion from 1985-87 using InterLISP-D (still have that LISP manual), but I was first raised on BSD...

Comment Re:Ctrl-Z (Score 1) 202

Job Control was a feature of the 4.1BSD Kernel, released in June 1981. Csh, first released in 1978, was (I believe) the first application to incorporate it to suspend a running job using Ctrl-Z. That job could then be either restart in the foreground using the command "fg" or restarted in the background using "bg". Running jobs could be monitored using the "jobs" command.

Comment Re:Real question (Score 2) 202

I used to be "civil unions for all, if you want to be married, find a priest/religious official to do the ceremony", but I've moderated over the years.

As I noted elsewhere, before I saw your post, I think there should be two entities. A Civil Union for the legal/tax part and a marriage for the religious part, if desired and/or there is one. The first is a contract with The State and the second is with your Religion. Maybe that would make things clearer/simpler.

Comment Re:Real question (Score 1) 202

Because it's a civil matter of a marriage being a contract. Like a domestic partnership.

That's why I think they should be separate entities. A Civil Union for the legal/tax part and a Marriage for the religious part, if there is one -- and they could both be applied at the same time if desired. Maybe this would cut down on the pedantic "marriage is between ..." arguments.

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